Waterproofing composition.



UNITED sTA rEs PATENT OFFICE.

WILMOT M. WHEELER, or 'DANBURY, CONNECTICUT-L WATERPROOFING COMPOSITION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 5, 1907.

Application filed A ri) 24', 190a swarm. 313,486.

giving to the surface a softness, so that to the touch it has a semblance of velvet, and still another object of the compound is to increase the brightness of the original color of the goods to be treated, thereby increasing the value on the finished article. i

This composition is formed by blending inroportions benzin, gasolene, naphtha,

. and a cohol.

equal These fluids are placed in a suitable vessel and raised to a temperature of about 175 Fahrenheit and held at thistemperature during the addition of the following substances: mutton-tallow, paraffin, White wax, beeswax, and sugar of lead. The proportions in which these are added is substantially one ounce in Weight of each of these each of the fluids above mentioned. The composition is then a lied in any desired manner to the materia to be treated. It will be understood that the proportions above mentioned are approximately the exact amounts employed, but that they may vary slightly,

nature of the fabric to be treated and the use'to which said material is to, be put.

- Having thus fully described my invention,

Letters Patent, is-

Awaterproofing composition composed of the following ingredients in the proportion set forth: one quart of benzin, one quart gasolene, one quart of naphtha, one quart of alcohol, one ounce of mutton-tallow, one ounce of parafiin, one ounce of 'white Wax,

sugar of lead.' v I WILMOT M. WHEELER.

Witnesses V MAU'DE L. SCALES, EBER A. Homer).

last-mentioned ingredients to onequart of What I claim as new, and desire to secure by one ounce of beeswax, and one ounce of more or less, according to the 

